Batten down the hatches, the ants are worried

OMG! 5cm!!

“And I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords”

Only if she wears leather and high heals

Looks like the ants were right – BOM has been updated

Forecast for Friday evening
Fine until showers develop overnight. Moderate to fresh westerly winds, easing overnight.

Precis: Showers developing overnight.

Chance of rainfall: 90% overnight.
Winds on Lake: Northwest 25 to 35 km/h easing to 10 km/h tonight.

Question. Is it a dyke or a tailings dump?

Sorry to double post, but no napalm comments PLEASE!

Sounds like you need pest control !!!!

astrojax said :

are ants generally a good bad or indifferent sign for a garden?

Well they provide hours of fascination for your average toddler which is never a bad thing. Although he does know not to touch them “cos they’ll nip ya”.

Ant bites??

*chuckle*

Most ants bite. You won’t die, but you will probably notice. If they are proper bullants, those REALLY HURT!

In a more general sense, ants can be a problem because some of them are farmers and spread their herds of aphids and scale around the place. Their nests tend to make the soil water resistant (particularly a problem when they set up in a pot).

ant, you should know what’s going on here, no?? 😉

on the subject of [other, not you] ants, i have a nest of bullies moved in under (or next to) a ceramic pot with daphne in on the lawn by the front door – is anything to worry about? are ants generally a good bad or indifferent sign for a garden?

ant said :

However, the ants are on to something, because we are to get a cold snap tomorrow, we could see 15 cm of snow falling on the Snowies and possibly something for the brindies too. It’ll be very windy and bleak and miserable, however we’re not slated to get much precip down here.

What you call windy, bleak and miserable, I call refreshingly cool.

Heh, Hugo got in with the spelling lame, you get moderated for that!

The ants have been unreliable in recent years, as the weather has changed. There were reports of them moving their eggs before this last system in central NSW, but they didn’t get the big falls.

However, the ants are on to something, because we are to get a cold snap tomorrow, we could see 15 cm of snow falling on the Snowies and possibly something for the brindies too. It’ll be very windy and bleak and miserable, however we’re not slated to get much precip down here.

Memo to Johnboy from the pedantic old fart:

Surely you would prefer to get compliments to complement your exquisite prose?

Well, that is reassuring anyway!

Not unless they start moving their young to higher ground Granny. The walls will keep out ordinary rain.

Meat ants are the best – they also put quartz chips (if they can find them) over their nests if they think a fire is coming; something to do with reflecting some of the heat apparently.

I will be expecting the mother of all storms then!

; )

Hmm interesting. Are you insured for flood damage?

the ants never lie

I won’t recaulk the ark until I see the ants taking their eggs to higher ground, but I will be packing my umbrella. Ants are far more accurate than the BOM.

5cm tall, meat ants.

just 1cm tall yesterday.

How about some perspective? How big is this anthill? in centimetres? inches? something to tell how big it is. What type of ants? bull ants? normal everyday garden variety type ants??

Seeing as I don’t have a bulletin to make time on, or the gaps between advertising spaces to fill (what the publishing industry calls what you think of as news) we really don’t do what you think of as slow news days.

It’s there because I want it to be there. If the rest of the content is so compelling you’ve only just felt the need to comment on something that doesn’t interest you then I’ll take that as a complement.

Slow news day – making mountains out of anthills?